how are yall felling about the website?
Fuck /u/spez, innit?
Fuck u/spez
fuck spez
Fuck that dick head named spez
Sir yes sir!
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Just joined a bit, too. Looks great so far. It reminds me of that wild west frontier feeling like when a bunch of us migrated from Digg to Reddit. We’re building another new community.
… With blackjack! And hookers!
Are you Decoy Bender or just Bender?
Just a decoy, I’m afraid. Shut up baby, I know it!
Hell yeah take my money!
Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.
As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)
Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.
I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit
God dam right friend.
The best parts of reddit were the communities of people dedicated to the topics under each sub.
Reddit CEOs didn’t create that. It was and has always been regular users and hardworking Mods that brought us what we loved about reddit. If reddit isn’t going to protect those people, fuck em.
I’m signing off of reddit with the black out. There will probably be a long time before something replaces it. But I’m a long for the ride.
I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.
Seems sluggish, rough, and low population, but fuck spez so I’ll give this an honest chance.
Happy to be here, also sad to be here.
The whole lemmy concept mixed with the current situation feels far more like you are part of a real community. Kinda like in old internet days. I will even break out of my reddit lurker days and try to contribute here.
Yeah it feels a lot more like an old school forum.
Exactly. The days when people would run little community servers for IRC or shoutcast or whatever on spare laptops hooked up to cable modems, and would mess around doing stuff for their friends or whatever online community they were part of. When websites didn’t all look the same because they’re hosted on the same big tech platform, and if you wanted to publish something you’d put creativity into web design rather than just signing up for a Twitter account. When you didn’t have the constant Faustian deal of selling your activity data in exchange for free platforms. When talking to your gaming clan meant typing in the IP of whoever hosted the TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Wilco server, rather than everybody all using Discord. When you didn’t have content policies for millions of people being made by one guy in California (IE Tumblr). When most websites were hosted on little $20/mo shared hosting accounts so nobody gave a shit about pandering to advertisers. When a ‘big forum’ was 10s of thousands of users, and forums had their own communities with their own culture.
I miss those days. But this feels a lot closer to that than anything else I’ve encountered in the last several years.
It’s good so far; a few UX/UI issues need polishing, some more display options would be nice too.
The whole issue of community@instance is going to take some getting used to for people, and it’s not clear how that’s going to shake out in the long run. I’m not yet certain whether this will become my default space, but I’m willing to give it a go.
There should be a way to make meta-communities. I.e. I could group FOO@lemmy.world and FOO@lemmy.ml and so forth so it shows as one large community when reading it.
It seems like the intended use-case for federated stuff like this is that all of FOO would be in one instance, even though it’s accessible from any instance it still shows which instance it originates in. Which feels a little weird, some topics don’t really have a overarching supertopic that it makes sense for them to belong to.
I don’t necessarily want only FOO@xyz. I want to make say my cars meta community so I can look at several grouped communities like simracing, F1, Indycar etc. the meta community would be my creation and only for me.
is it possible to change what your default space is?
I’m a little confused, but cautiously optimistic. It took a while to sign up and log in, but I got that far, so I guess I can work out the rest too! As a bit of a Reddit lurker, I’m out of my comfort zone, but committed to upvoting and commenting to help build the community!
It’s ugly, not intuitive, feels way more complicated than necessary for a social site and the name is kind of dumb.
I’m 100% on board because screw Reddit and fuck u/spez.
I hope I can learn the ropes and help this place grow into something better.
Honestly when i started with reddit it was very confusing. Specially the concept of karma. Now it is time to learn something fresh and new!
If you’re on Android get Jerboa for Lemmy. It’s still in alpha but its still much better than browsing with the website imo, at least in terms of ugliness
I just discovered Jerboa. It’s at least serviceable.
They seem to be building it up fast.
I am here on mobile using Mlem. Mlem has an interface superficially like Apollo, but it doesn’t have nearly the polish and features, like swiping posts to the side to up/downvote. I didn’t realize (until I lost it) how much that single capability improved QoL. Until an app comes along with better UX and QoL, I probably won’t stay. (I don’t doomscroll on my computer either).
I just tried out mobile browser. It works great on iOS Firefox. It’s good enough as a stopgap until someone makes a better mobile app.
Yeah. Mlem needs a bunch of work. It crashes, sometimes shows full posts, has no option for compact posts, etc… I bet it will get there; it’s just going to take time.
memmy is another ios (x-platform?) app to try that is apollo’esq, is more stable, and seems to default to using swipe as the primary method of up/down vote and commenting.
We’ve had to go backwards to go forward and I’m all for it.
It’s like we’ve just escaped an abusive partner and now starting from zero!
That “first night in the new apartment without most of the furniture, sleeping by yourself for the first time in a while” feeling.
I actually love that feeling except that one time I spent my first night in this prison-like dorm room with dirty walls and no hot water in Japan, dirty sheets and a paper thin futon with nothing to eat and nobody to talk to/no way to call anyone. This feels a lot better than that.
Honestly I don’t see it as going backwards but unfamiliar. I was reluctant to switch to this style because I didn’t understand it and ended up on mastodon a few years ago into some terrifyingly hostile racist/bogoted/sexist communities. Maybe I did something wrong and ended up in a bad part of town but I ended up deleting the app I was using. So far the experience on lemmy is so much more pleasant lol…
Agreed. I was an early adopter of Mastodon but I found it so empty and strange. I figured I’d wait a couple of years. Much better now. Already like Lemmy over reddit. Not hard really.
I’m a slashdot refugee who just had a 16 year stopover on reddit :)
OMG! Slashdot… now that is a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Hello, fellow /. refugee. I made a stopover on Digg before jumping to Reddit. nice to meet you here.
That was my path… /. -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy.
So glad to leave that dumpster fire of a website
Loving it - federation is great, hardly ever even know which instance I’m interacting with from kbin, which is a good thing as it means the federation is working and mostly seamless. Can’t wait for some apps to come out and streamline the experience, hopefully some more people will start coming here to populate a lot of the communities that I’d like to participate or lurk in. Right now there’s a lot of… uh… shouting into the void trying to fill the space. I’m posting way more than I ever did on reddit just because like… somebody has to do it, right?
Hoping it’s a success but I find it hard to see it becoming one. Purely due to the confusion with how it actually works with different instances. Many casual users are going to be confused and not bother
The way this is successful is if someone develops a way for the 3rd party clients (such as a proxy) to switch to this system instead. Also a way to easily register.
People use discord though, and I find it just as confusing. It feels the same here, except you make an account on one server and use that server to browse all other servers
Yeah, I’m one of the confused casual users. Can you explain how the instances work? This morning I created an account on my pc but had no time to browse. I downloaded an app called jerboa a few minutes ago. The front page had memes and fun things. I logged into lemmy.world instance and that content is gone. Do I have to have an account for each instance? Are the instances like separate websites?
All the accounts and posts can communicate/share across the instances, but each instance has its own database of posts.
The example people give is that is like email. You can have licenensedtoill@gmail but you can send messages someone @yahoo.
You dont have to create a seperate account for each instance. And on whatever instance youre on you can browse and post on communities of any other instance.
Theres definitely some work to be done to make this all more intuitive though
Does that mean someone else can have the same username as me on a separate instance?
I agree. I think there needs to be lesser of a learning curve to get more users onto this.
